In reply to Chuck.

Yeah, I guess I had the general impression that was what you were saying (didn't you say something similar in earlier blog posts, about not buying the division between high art and low art, or am I misremembering that?)

I am in the opposite position as you, having read Franzen but not Pratchett (and I'm not in love with Franzen). But surely at some level what you get out of a book is more dependent on what's there to get than who you are. Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus, right?